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Defuse Hot Buttons

Before the visit, email, write or call your parents with carefully worded personal background information that will calm your folks' fears and pet peeves about you and your date or friend.

Create an Exit Strategy

Warn your family that your stay might be cut short. Come up with some good, socially acceptable reasons why you have to leave early. Have several backup exit plans ready to execute on short notice. Be real about how long you can handle being with your relatives. It's better to share fun and love with your family for a few hours-than boredom and hard feelings for a few days.

Set Realistic Goals

Shoot for simply "surviving" the visit, rather than trying to get everyone to like you and approve of your lifestyle. Better to leave doors open to future communication than to burn bridges with the older generations. Some new attitudes and social customs take the folks a few years of repeated exposure to become comfortable with. Many parents suffer from Chronic Cultural Shock Syndrome.

Surviving the Visit

"Be of good cheer, the end is near!" You only have to dodge the bullets of family expectations once a year -- and you don't have to stay any longer than you can keep on top of the ruckus. Be light -- hearted, playful and flexible -- and enjoy the family circus as much as you can!

Creative Question Answering

You don't have to answer the question that is being asked! Subtly shift your answer to their question into a response concerning a related, but different question -- one that you're willing to answer. For tips on how to answer the question you prefer, listen carefully to interviews with politicians and celebrities.

Take the Fifth

If you don't feel capable of safely answering a question, tell them you're not clear enough on the situation to give them a response right now. If they don't let you off the hook, develop a bladder emergency or "accidentally" spill your drink on yourself. Watch cocktail party scenes in old movies for skillful hints on how to escape any interrogation in a socially acceptable way.

Turn the Question Around

When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, simply ask them the same -- or similar -- question back. Or respond with a totally different question -- especially about a subject that you know excites them. React in any way that will throw them off the track. To pull off this tactic, you have to use subtle skill. Add a dash of playfulness or humor and you'll get away with it.

Take the Japanese Diplomatic Approach

If you can't wholeheartedly agree with what someone is saying, you can respond in the spirit of the famous Japanese phrase, "Ah- So." This diplomatic response translates literally into: "So it would appear." Without compromising your integrity, you can respond to almost any relative's narrow-minded statement with: " I can see how you can see it that way" or "I understand how you feel."

Get Your Stories Straight

Make sure you and your date/friend are giving everyone the same information about the same topics. Some relatives have nothing better to do than compare notes on what's been said.

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Drawing from the wisdom of native cultures and ancient spiritual traditions, Keith Varnum shares his practical approach to healing and transformation as an author, life strategy coach, acupuncturist, filmmaker, radio host, vision quest guide and international seminar leader with his empowering "Dream Workshops" and free, fun "Prosperity Ezine" at The Dream.

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